Primary Care Crisis

Meet Dr. Hadland and Dr. Vassy

Robert Accordino M.D., M.Sc. | Posted 04.30.2012

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Robert Accordino M.D., M.Sc.

During our primary-care crisis, should the U.S. be using valuable resources to deport Harvard-trained primary-care physicians who want to serve patients and also remain in the same country as their spouses? According to DOMA, it should.

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A New Form of Health Care Rationing

Steve Jacob | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Doctor Shortage, Primary Care Crisis, Health Reform, Primary Care Doctors, Primary Care Doctor Shortage, Primary Care Physicians, Politics News
Steve Jacob

The new health reform law is expected to create 32 million more insured Americans. However, an insurance card will not mean much to patients without providers to care for them.

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A Doctor's Advice: Take Three Questions and Call Me in the Morning

Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medical Homes, Accountable Care Organizations, Primary Care Crisis, Health Care, Politics News
Maggie Kozel, M.D.

Even health care professionals and policy wonks find it hard to stay ahead of all the ideas and arguments floating around healthcare these days; all the more reason to focus on the fundamentals.

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The Primary-Care Shortage: A Crisis In The Making?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Patient Outcomes, Primary Care Students, Primary Care, Primary Care Outcomes, Internist Numbers, Primary Care Crisis, Family Doctor Shortage, Internist Shortage, Primary Care Shortage, Healthy Living News

Patients living in areas with more primary care physicians have lower death rates and fewer preventable hospitalizations, new research suggests. But a...

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What’s The Future Of Primary Care?

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 07.12.2011

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Dr. Cindy Haines

Why, exactly, would a medical student choose to pursue a career in primary care? And why would they choose not to?

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Are Primary Care Physicians Going Extinct?

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Primary Care Physician, Dr Cynthia Haines, Primary Care Crisis, Health Care, Primary Care, Healthy Living Health News, Home News
Dr. Cindy Haines

Fewer medical students are entering general internal medicine these days. This is a huge problem because the numbers of those in need of general medical services are going in the other direction: up, up, up.

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Report: California Faces Dire Shortage Of Doctors

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Doctor Shortage, Primary Care Crisis, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch By Joanna Lin Six out of nine regions in California have a shortage of primary care physicians, and t...

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The Case for Caring About Primary Care

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Primary Care, Health, Primary Care Physician, Primary Care Crisis, Healthcare Reform, Medical Care, Healthcare, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

Because primary care providers are the initial contact for patients with a wide array of conditions, we are the proverbial Jack of all trades. But we also think broadly about what may be wrong.

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Health Overhaul Likely To Strain Doctor Shortage

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Primary Care Physician, Health Crisis, Primary Care, Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Health Bill, Health Care Crisis, Primary Care Crisis, Health Care, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — Better beat the crowd and find a doctor. Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the land...

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A Vital Part of Healthcare Reform: Change How We Educate Our Doctors

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. John Neustadt

Training doctors to uncover and treat the underlying causes of disease could eliminate much of the unnecessary reliance on pharmaceuticals and reduce their devastating, and sometimes deadly, side effects.

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Healthcare Reform: Our Great Opportunity to Fix Primary Care Medicine

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Healthcare Education, Primary Care, Universal Healthcare, Medical Errors, Obama Healthcare Reform, Medical Costs, Healthcare Reform, Primary Care Crisis, Medical Education, Healthy Living News
Dr. John Neustadt

I believe that in order to fully fix our healthcare system, we must focus on reforming primary care medicine in this country.

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Corporate Profit Continues to Define Health Care Reform & the U.S. Race to the Bottom

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ron Pollack, Uwe Reinhardt, Economic Crisis, Single-Payer Health Insurance, Public-Private Health Care Reform, Minimum Benefit Policies, Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Multi-Payer Insurances, National Health Care, Corporatocracy, Health, Denial Management, Gaming the System for Profit, Primary Care Crisis, Framing the Issue of Health Care Reform, Physicians for a National Health Care Program, "Free Market" Health Care, Politics News
Michele Swenson

Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Inflated administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans' health dollars.

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